Kate Bush’s “Working Up That Hill” has reached Quantity One on the UK singles chart following its look within the newest season of Stranger Issues.
Final week, the music was probably the most streamed monitor on the planet and reached Quantity One on each the Spotify charts within the UK and the US after incomes 57million streams in only one week.
In addition to being Quantity One now within the UK as of June 17, it’s additionally Quantity One in Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. Within the US, it’s presently Quantity 4 in the primary chart and Quantity One on the Billboard International 200 chart, making it Bush’s largest ever hit in America 37 years after its unique launch.
In a brand new assertion immediately, Bush mentioned of the information: “The Duffer Brothers have created 4 extraordinary collection of Stranger Issues during which the kid actors have grown into younger adults.
“On this newest collection the characters are dealing with most of the identical challenges that exist in actuality proper now. I consider the Duffer Brothers have touched individuals’s hearts in a particular means at a time that’s extremely troublesome for everybody, particularly youthful individuals.
“By that includes ‘Working Up That Hill’ in such a optimistic mild – as a talisman for Max (one of many major feminine characters) – the music has been introduced into the emotional area of her story. Concern, battle and the ability of affection are throughout her and her associates.
“I salute the Duffer Brothers for his or her braveness – taking this new collection into a way more grownup and darker place. I need to thank them a lot for bringing the music into so many individuals’s lives.
“I’m overwhelmed by the size of affection and help the music is receiving, and it’s all taking place actually quick, as if it’s being pushed alongside by a form of elemental pressure.
“I’ve to confess I really feel actually moved by all of it. Thanks so very a lot for making the music a primary in such an surprising means”.
“Working Up That Hill” initially reached Quantity Three within the UK in 1985 and charted once more in 2012, when it reached Quantity 12. The music was additionally just lately utilized in It’s A Sin, the award-winning TV collection by Russell T Davies.
The music was written and produced by Bush and featured on her fifth studio album Hounds Of Love, which was launched in 1985, debuting at 30 on the Billboard chart, the place it presently stands at No 12.
Bush now has boasts the longest-ever hole between Quantity One singles in Official Chart historical past, with 44 years between her 1978 chart topper “Wuthering Heights” and 2022’s “Working Up That Hill”.
Bush now additionally claims the report of longest time taken for a single to achieve Quantity One on the Official Singles Chart, with it being 37 years because the single was first launched.
Martin Talbot, Chief Govt of the Official Charts Firm mentioned: “It has been unbelievable to see the long-lasting Kate Bush climbing up the Official Singles Chart with ‘Working Up That Hill’ – and to see her breaking a slew of data into the cut price.
“The best way {that a} new technology of music followers have taken her traditional monitor to their hearts actually does cement Kate’s place as an all-time nice, if that had been in any respect obligatory.”
